This type of violence involves the killing of four or more individuals in a single location, not including the perpetrator.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a bid by the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to have the death penalty removed as a potential sentencing option. Lawyers for Robert Bowers argued that capital punishment violates the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause and the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Senior […] More
April 7, 2020
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67. California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Saturday […] More
March 30, 2020
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a terrorist who killed 14 people in a 2015 attack on a Christmas party in California has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence by shredding a map her son may have used to plan the massacre, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Rafia Sultana Shareef, 66, of Corona agreed to […] More
March 4, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof staged a hunger strike this month while on federal death row, alleging in letters to The Associated Press that he’s been “targeted by staff,” “verbally harassed and abused without cause” and “treated disproportionately harsh.” The 25-year-old Roof, who […] More
February 25, 2020
MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — Testimony from a woman whose son and nephew were killed in a shooting rampage that claimed eight lives in a small Mississippi community was so emotional that the defendant ended up in tears. Willie Cory Godbolt is a man with a long history of abusive behavior, according to his relatives who […] More
February 20, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes. Patrick Crusius, 21, has been charged with 90 counts under federal […] More
February 6, 2020
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — The man who shot several people, killing one, at a zombie-themed festival in Florida more than four years ago was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison. Jose Raul Bonilla, 24, was sentenced after pleading no contest to second-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and possession of a […] More
January 14, 2020
UPDATED 1/13/2020 11 AM: Jose Bonilla has agreed to a plea deal on the day his trial was scheduled to begin. ORIGINAL STORY: A Florida man who allegedly fatally shot one person and wounded several others at a 2015 event is facing life in prison. Jose Raul Bonilla, 20, is accused in the deadly […] More
January 13, 2020
BY CURT ANDERSON AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The trial of Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz was delayed Thursday until at least next summer, when he will face a death penalty case stemming from the February 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead. CNN, POOL Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer […] More
December 19, 2019
BY PHILIP MARCELO ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) — Should the Boston Marathon bomber’s trial have taken place in Boston as the city was still reeling from the traumatic 2013 attack? That’s the crux of what’s being argued Thursday before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (juh-HAHR’ sar-NY’-ev) are […] More
December 12, 2019
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — The younger of two students charged in a fatal school shooting in suburban Denver will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Wednesday. In a written order, District Judge Jeffrey K. Holmes said lawyers for Alec McKinney, 16, failed to prove that it would be better for McKinney or […] More
December 5, 2019
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff ousted following the Parkland high school massacre is suing over his removal from office. Attorneys for ex-Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel say a federal lawsuit contends Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Senate deprived him of due process and failed to follow a special master’s recommendation […] More
November 25, 2019
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are calling a shooting that left five dead during a Halloween party at an Airbnb rental a “bloodbath.” SOURCE: KRON, Craig Cannon, Contra Costa County Sheriff, Handout Photos via CNN Contra Costa Sheriff David Livingston said Friday that he knows residents in the plush […] More
November 18, 2019
LAS VEGAS (AP) — They may have been united by a love for country music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement. The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy […] More
October 4, 2019
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors have enough evidence for a Colorado teenager to be tried for a school shooting in a Denver suburb that killed one of his classmates and injured eight others, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Theresa Slade found that Devon Erickson, 19, could be tried on over 40 criminal charges, including […] More
September 26, 2019
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A man accused of gunning down people at a busy Walmart in El Paso last month was indicted Thursday for capital murder, prosecutors announced. Patrick Crusius, 21, of Allen, Texas, was indicted in connection with the Aug. 3 mass shooting that left 22 dead, District Attorney Jaime Esparza said. El Paso prosecutors […] More
September 12, 2019
HOUSTON (AP) — A young woman told jurors Tuesday that she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” and then began to pray before he fatally shot her parents and four siblings and shot her in the head in their suburban Houston home. Cassidy Stay testified at the trial of Ronald Lee Haskell, who is charged with […] More
August 28, 2019
Ashton Kutcher was dating Ashley Ellerin, who was murdered in her Hollywood home in 2001 and testified to the night of her murder. More
August 8, 2019
